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This week, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced an extension on the public comment period on Nestle’s proposal to draw out more water from the ground, package it and sell it to you at substantial markup.

Opinion

Two weeks from the end of this presidential election cycle and one of the most significant policy stories — problems with Obamacare — has barely dented it. Could we finally, hopefully, have an election cycle that isn’t a referendum on health care reform?

Opinion

We’ve already started the post-mortem to the Trump election. He could turn things around, especially with the last debate just hours away, but Trump gives the impression of a guy who can only win if he runs up the score early on. Voting won’t end for another three weeks, but his path to the White House is started to look overgrown and apt to disappear at any second.

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@ebaerrenSunday’s forecast is for clear skies and a pleasant mid-70s temperature. In the Washington Area Neighborhood just south of downtown Mount Pleasant, starting at 1 p.m. there is also a 100 percent chance of music.

Columns

It took exactly 4.2 nanoseconds for America’s ugly, jingoist, authoritarian side to come roaring from the stinking hole it’s lurked since it last shouted and raged that everyone opposed to our invasion of Iraq should move to Cuba. This time, as always, what prompted its awful eruption, what caused its noxious reek to be spilled across the land was the thing that most faithfully draws it out: a black man deciding to do his own thing.